ALLIANCE FOR ACCOUNT ABLE GOVERNANCE AND ALHAJI MUHAMMAD MUMUNI [2009]DLCHRAJ5982

Date	2009-07-31
Suit No.	CHRAJ/2009/HQ/01417/929
Citation No.	[2009]DLCHRAJ5982

MS. ANNA BOSSMAN

[2009]DLCHRAJ5982
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" ><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
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color:#00B050">ALLIANCE FOR ACCOUNT ABLE GOVERNANCE<o:p></o:p>(COMPLAINANT)<o:p></o:p>AND<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
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color:#00B050">ALHAJI MUHAMMAD MUMUNI<o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>(CHRAJ)<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
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mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 1.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">CHRAJ/2009/HQ/01417/929&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; DATE:
31-07-2009<o:p></o:p>

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</div>INTRODUCTION<o:p></o:p>The complainant is a non-governmental organisation in Accra,
called, Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG). On 24th April
2009, the complainant filed a complaint before the Commission on Human Rights
and Administrative Justice (the Commission) alleging, among others, that Alhaji
Mohammad Mumuni, the respondent, was not qualified to be appointed Minister of
State because of his conduct relating to the affairs of the National Vocational
Training Institute (NVTI) over which he superintended as Minister for
Employment and Social Welfare between 1999-2000. According to the complainant,
despite its petition to Parliament against the appointment of the respondent as
Minister for Foreign Affairs, Parliament proceeded to confirm his appointment
as Foreign Affairs Minister.<o:p></o:p>THE FACTS OF
THE COMPLAINT<o:p></o:p>The complainant alleges that:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;
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border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">A forensic audit conducted into the accounts of the National
Vocational Training&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Institute
(NVTI), then under Alhaji Mohammad Mumuni in his capacity as<o:p></o:p><ol style="margin-top:0in" start="1" type="i">
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; border: none;">"...Minister
 of Employment and Social Welfare for the period January, 1997 to December,
 2002,"established "... that through the gross negligence and
 misconduct of Alhaji Mumuni, the state had lost a .... 15 billion old
 cedis through his involvement in the purported disbursement of monies to
 the NVTI alone. Further, Alhaji Mumuni was found to have authorized the
 fraudulent releases of amounts in excess of 19 billion cedis from the
 Consolidated Fund into undisclosed accounts.<o:p></o:p></li>
</ol><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><ol style="margin-top:0in" start="2" type="i">
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; border: none;">"Alhaji
 Mumuni, purportedly acting on the strength of an illegal appointment by
 President Mills as a temporary head of the Ministry of Interior in
 January, 2009, at a time when he had not been properly nominated by His
 Excellency President J.E.A. Mills as a Minister for Interior, dismissed
 the lawfully appointed Head of the National Disaster Management
 Organisation (NADMO), ACP Douglas Akrofi".<o:p></o:p></li>
</ol><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><ol style="margin-top:0in" start="3" type="i">
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; border: none;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
 font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
 mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;">Alhaji Muhammad Mumuni unlawfully
 removed the acting Head of the Driver and Vehicle Examination and
 Licensing Authority (DVLA).<o:p></o:p></li>
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iv.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Alhaji Muhammad Mumuni
purported to engage in further unlawful conduct by unconstitutionally imposing
curfews on Bawku, a town in the Upper East Region of the Republic of Ghana.<o:p></o:p><ol style="margin-top:0in" start="5" type="i">
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5pt; text-align: justify; border: none;"><span style="font-size:
 12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:
 &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;">On 14th day
 of April, 2009, upon the instructions of Alhaji Muhammad Mumuni, the
 Acting Director of the Legal and Consular Bureau purported to terminate a
 headquarters agreement between the Government of Ghana and Africa Legal
 Aid (AFLA), a pan-African international organization having its
 headquarters in Accra, Ghana.<o:p></o:p><</main>